Fields:
- Health geography
- Gerontology
- Occupational science
Areas of Expertise:
- Environmental exposures, stress, and health outcomes
- Social epidemiology (neighborhoods and health)
- Environmental/geographical gerontology
- American philosophical pragmatism (Dewey in particular)
Methodological Expertise:
- Survey research
- Qualitative data collection and analysis
- Mixed methods designs
- Analysis of spatial/areal data
Current Projects:
- African-American resilience in surviving cancer (NIH)
- Older urban African-Americans, stress, and CVD risk (NIH)
- Family mHealth intervention to improve health outcomes in black youth with Type 1 diabetes (NIH – consultant)
- Reframing place-based gerontology using process pragmatism
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